[YCM Unrelated] I need help...

[Don Shadow]

Imagine this. you're on google images searching a pic, and when you click on one, a window pops up that's not even a real window and it says that you have a virus, and when you try to exit a REAL window pops up saying it. i think it's fake because last time, it had me download an "anitvirus software" and my current Antivirus said that IT was a virus, thus giving me suspicion that it's fake. what the H*** is going on?

[Master White]

I would run a virus scan if I was you before it takes contrl and says you can't, and when it does, you got to take it to the computer center wherever you live to fix if they can. it costs.

[FTW (For The Wynn)]

That is a virus. It's meant to be a supposedly clever attempt to install viral software on your computer.

Just for a general reference, if it "downloads" without any prompt from you and/or you have never heard of it, don't let it download on your computer.

[Master White]

I also forgot to mention, if you can't escape it like it did to mind, just turn your computer off manually and go get help, b/c chances are you have a virus already.

[Frybread002]

Agreed. Whenever you're checking at an site or something similar to it and it switches to "that" screen. That's just one form of a virus trying to hit you. More or less, talk to a person who's a techy about these sort of things. In my case, the exact same thing happend. Checking out an site where an page pops up and says I'm hit with a virus and askes me to download a program to delete or such, the program is obvisouly the virus itself.

In this case, a majority of people don't know much about computer safety (unfortunately, I was one of those folks) and will have choose to download it. With that in mind, programs that just randomly come at you like that, are scams. Don't buy it and just try your best to exit the page (and of course run a scan on the computer). In short, just exit the page and talk about a professional about this sort of thing (if you're currently in school, ask the computer teacher or your service provider as they should know about these sort of things).

Hope that helps.